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tween this country and Australasia.
That such a comparison would tell
enormously against us is undoubted, but
it should be added that if public poilcy
had been directed in these Islands to the
introduction of a homogeneous popula-
ton, trained under Western civilization,
the case would have been different.
But cheap labor was the sole aim and
object, and even for this purpose the
policy has signally failed, because the
statistics before us demonstrate that we
nav much higher wages for very indifter-
emf and unreliable service here than is
paid for the very best trained service IN
the large cities of Australia. We have,
however, subordinated our industries to
the Chinese, who are. not establishing
productive industries to compete with
those of other progressive countries.
Indeed they cannot do SO. Our immi-
grafton policy has been radically de-
fective, therefore, and viii react injur-
iously upon the country in the not
distant future.
In brlef, 1t may be sald, In the words
of Mr.. Hayter, which we quote: "The
total value of the external tra9 of Vic
toria is greater than that of any other
British possession except India,
Canada, Malta, New South Wales,
Straits Settlements and the United
Kingdom itself The total value of the
external trade of the Australasian col
onies, taken as whole, is less than that
of the United Kingdom and of India, but is
nearly three times as large as that of
Canada, and also much larger than that
of any other British possession"
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Getting Ont of a scrape.

Said an old veteran and prominent
business man: "You would not believe it,
but at one time / was member of one
of the military bands in the old army.
It so happened that the regiment to which
our band was attached was sent to Fort
Pulaski. We were on one of the gun
boats maneuvering in that region, and on
one occasion in passing up the river, which
had several outlet channels or mouths,
the boat ran up the wrong channel, one
SO narrow that it did not permit a turn of
the boat except under the very guns OF
the rebels. The officer in command soon
discovered the mistake, but the question
was how he was to get out of the scrape.
stSOme distance to the front the channel
widened, so that there would be no diff
Guilty in turning the boat for a retreat if
the rebel guns which commanded that
part of the channel would keep quiet.
The officer called the band together and
instructed them to play Dixie We did
it and did our best, and that Federal gun
boat swung round into the wide part of
the channel, the band playing the favorite
tune and the rebels cheering us instead Of
firing at u.s. AS soon as the turn was
made and the boat was out of the imIne-
date range of the heavy guns we changed
instantly to The Star Spangled Banner,
and then it was bang and crash and roar,
the very men who had been cheering us
not two minutes before sending bullets
after US. Inter Ocean.
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The Poorer People of London.

The remarkable well being of children
in neighboring slums and cutters would
lead one to suppose that dirt is healthy,
though of course there are many who do
not exhibit such evidence Of robustness.
But it is certain that the pampered infant,
carefully wrapped in flannel from it's birth,
and doctored upon every possible occasion,
is not, in the long run, of the same endur-
ing constitution generally to be met with
in the lower classes, though the grumble
of these concerning their richer brethren
is incessant.
Look, however, at these specimens OF
humanity when they reach maturer age,
their coarse ideas and ways, which are
followed by many others who have not
their excuse. The very way in which the
coster and his like make love partakes of
the brute. He is unendowed with the
power of forming his feeling into delicate
or even acceptable speech, so he takes to
banging or pinching, and one may see the
well known type of Garry and his gal''
of fine feathers, oiled hair and high heels
cutting each other to denote their affection,
or coarsely assaulting their favorites to
display their displeasure, and perhaps
sulkily walking apart when annoyed, but
not sufficiently irritable for any more ag-
gressive form of venting their feelings
London Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
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snort stories OF the Resi- CIass.

cannot agree with Mr.. Howells that
the well wrought short story is abundant.
There are short stories whose number is
beyond count and whose readableness is
above zero, but the short story such as
Mr.. Howells exalts is certainly rare. But
this is not meant as an Indictment of our
writer's, for a short story of the best class
is distinctly the most difficult thing to ac-
complish in literature. 1t implies almost
all that the novel requires freshness of
Characterization and novelty of situation;
and hence a writer must be rich in re-
sources who can afford to lavish upon a
miniature discoveries in the way of char
acter and incident sufficient to set forth a
heroic canvas. A well known novelist
once said to me: 81 cannot afford to
write short stories; If I invent anything
good enough for short story have in
vented something that is the nucleus of a
novel" From this point of view it is a
wonder that short stories are written at
an.-Home Journal.
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DIR. Talmage told me the other day tnaS
he never suffered so much from the prop
rieties as once when he ought to nave
risen to make the opening prayer OF
service, but could not do it on account OF
in country church sitting alone on
little platform waiting for the minute
when he should begin and gravely prepar-
ing his mind, when the door opened and
gentleman and two ladies entered Tney
were city people and they wanted that
fact known. The ladies were very ex-
pensive1y dressed, but the man was
curiosity He was appare1ed with the
care of debutante at White House bali.
His eyebrows and mustache were DYED
Jet black, and his cheeks showed traces or
powder and paint, while his shape suggested
stays. He strutted to seat with the air
of peacock on parade.
The ladies sat down and their escort
fourished in after them and dropped him
self between them on bench. The bench
broke. Then a stirring scene was enacted.
The gentleman had fallen through TO the
floor and was caught between the spllnt-
cred ends of the seat. He wriggled help
lessly and lost his eyeglasses and cane ana
hat The look of misery and fright on his
face succeeding the proud dignity that
had previously sat there was too much
for DIR. Talmage. He wanted to get out
into ten acre field and whoOp. He could
not help laughing, and had to put has
handkerchief up to his face and pretend
that he had very bad cough.-''R Rambler
in Brooklyn Eagle.
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Jay Gou1d,s Son George.

According to common reports, George
Gould has settled down into a most ex-
enplary husband since his marriage with
Edith Kingdom. He has become so en-
crossed in. his business that his old COM
paniOns at the New York club are inclined
to complain q little at his neglect of them.
One of them said yesterday: sit is not
often that a rich mans son settles down
with the ambition to become richer than
his father, but that is just what George
Gould seems to have done. 1t is not so
long since we used to see him every night
or two at the club with 8 jolly lot of
fellows around him. Now we never see
him, but the fellows say that he has
grown tremendously ambitious for vast
wealth. He will be q very rich man with
out waiting for his fathers demise. ~
New York Tribune.
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French and English Cookery.

The difference between French and Eng
Hsh cookery lies chiefiy-so far as meat is
concerned-in the attitude of the cook re-
garding the inherent flavor and aroma Of
the Wand. The French are greatly adj
dicted to the habit of Disgusting the nat
ural flavor of meats with adventitious
sauces, the reason being that French meat
is often deficient in natural flavor. In
England, on the other hand, where the
5-year-old mutton and other kinds of
meat have a more agreeable and richer
flavor of their own, the chef best shows
his skill by preserving this flavor, which,
after all, ismore inviting and appetizing
than any sauce ever invented by Gull
nary genius. The French cook E'is too
often tempted to extend his art to dark
fleshed game, and, seeking to adorn it
with new favors, destroys the original
SAVIOR and aroma, in which consists the
value of the dish.-New York Post
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The equivalent in dollars is not calcu-
hated exactly, but is quite near enough
for comparative statement. The aver
age annual sum of exports and imports
per head, therefore, of the seven colonies
named, for eleven years ended December
31st, 1885, was about $176; the average,
per head of population of the Hawaiian
Kingdom for 1885, was about $161, and
for 1886 $191. Our exports consisted
mainly of one product; the Australasian
exports took a wide range including gold
and other metals and minerals, agricul
tural products, and manufactures of
various kinds. In addition to this sur
plus sent abroad the value of home pro-
ducts to supply the spot demand must
be added if anything like a fair indus
trial comparison is to be instituted be-
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Nnrae,a Waeaa in rrallne.

have heard many French housekeepers
declare that they gladly put up with all
servant annoyances, except with those of
a wet nurse. They are the real tyrants
and worry of the servant class. In the
first place good nurses wages are enor-
nous; she is paid from $50 to $40 a
month; she is given whole trousseau;
she must be fed with extra dishes, a
thing, which however reasonable it may
seem, always excites grumbling among
the other servants. For baby's sake, she
is out a good deal, and in parks she meets
other nurses, who for pastime make it a
point to gossip and tear their masters to
pieces. When found fault with, nurse
must not be scolded nor worried; it might
hurt the baby. She is well aware that the
peace OF the family depends upon her, and
like all despots she is sure to take advan-
tage of it. Moral: Mothers must nurse
their own children. Brooklyn Eagle.
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One Of Mexico7s Ouiet cities.

Our next stop was made at Siloa, quiet
city of $4,000 inhabitants, the towers,
spires and minarets of its massive houses
of worship rising high above the low
matched dwellings of its residents, rich
and poor. Its beautiful gardens and clean
kept courts are filed with choicest flower
ing plants and semi tropical exotics. The
city band gave concert in the evening in
honor of our visit Our Pullman train
was side tracked for the night, and we
slept soundly, to be awakened with the
morning light by a jargon of bells-as
though struck by a thousand sledge
hammers. The bells in this strange land
all came from Spain, and every old cath
eGral, church, monastery and convent has
from three to twelve-never keyed to con-
cert pitch nor rung as chimes, but ham
mered vigorously with the clapper, and
these people think it exquisite music. :
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The crz of the Ranshee.

There is now living in Bristol Mrs.
Iinahan, an old Irish woman, who has
not seen her own country for forty years
She is old, poor, bed ridden and suffering,
but patient and cheerful beyond belief.
Her strongest feeling is love for Ireland,
and she likes talking to me because am
Irish. Many time, sitting in her little,
close room, above the noisy street, she has
told me about banshees and phookaS and
fairies, especially the first. She declares
solemnly she once heard the cry, or caoin
of a banshee.
sit was when I was little young
child she told me, land knew nothing
at all of banshees, or Of death. One day
mother sent me to see after my grand
mother, the length of three miles from
our house. All the road was deep in snow,
and / went my lone--and didn't know the
grandmother was dead, and my aunt gone
to the village for help. So l got to the
house. and see her lying so still and
quiet 1 thought she was sleepin'. When
called her and she wouldn' t stir or speak,
/ thought I'd put snow on her face TO
wake her. just stepped outside to get a
handful and came in, leaving the door
open, and then 1 heard far away cry, so
faint and yet so fearsome that shook
like a leaf in the wind. 1t got nearer and
nearer, and then l heard q sound like
clapping or wringing of hands, as they do
in kneeling at a funeral Twice it came
and then I slid down to the ground and
crept under the bed where my grand
mother lay, and there heard it for the
third time crying, 'Ochone, ochone, at the
very door Then it suddenly stopped; l
couldn't tell where it went, and dared
not lift up my head till the woman came
in the house. One of them took me up
and said 1T was the banshee the child
heard, for the woman that lies there was
enc of the real old Irish families-she was
an O'Grady and that was the Graison of
st. "-English Magazine.
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police COurC.
BEFORE POLICE JUSTICE DAYTON.
TUESDAY, May 10th.
May 10th, 1887.

BEFORE POLICE JUSTICE DAYTON.
TUESDAY, May 10th.
Kaneholo, J. Weber and Bila each had
to pay Sc for drunkenness.
Kwong Fly was charged with vagrancy
w. S. Wond stated that the defendant
would not work though he had had
many opportunities. He was found
guilty and sentenced to imprisonment at
hard labor for one month, and to pay
$1.1O costs.
Manuel Phillips charged with assault
and battery on John Gomez, was re-
manded to the 18th.
Kelei was found guilty of assault and
battery on his wife Heleloa, and fined 81
with $3.50 costs, and ordered to give
a bond in the sum of $25 with one surety
to keep the peace towards his wife for
one year, said bond to be given after the
fine is paid.
Kamelo charged with assault and bat
terry on Palakiko, was found not guilty
and discharged.
Palakiko for assault and battery on
Kawelo was fined 50 with 81 costs.
Three Cinnamon were further re-
manded for gaming.
A nolle pros was entered against the
ten natives, male and female, who were
charged with aiding and abetting gam
ing.
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intermediary Court.

Mr. Justice Bickerton yesterday gave
the following decision in the case of Joe
de Silva VS. G. Aug. Stuhlman and Aug.
Kalbe. Assumpsit for $40:
This is an appeal from the Police
Court of Honolulu, where judgment was
rendered April Goth, 1887, in favor of
plaintiff as against defendant Kalbe for
500 and costs 1925.
No evidence is offered here and after
hearing the record of Police Court, where
no evidence was offered for the defend
ant, and hearing argument of counsel on
both sides, L see no reason for reversing
the judgment of the Police Justice. The
judgment of the Police Court is affirmed
with costs.
RICH'D. f. BICKERTON,
Justice Of the Supreme Court.
May 10th, 1887.
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Bruises in Woodvork.

Bruises may be taken out of the wood
work Of scientific instruments by wetting
with warm water. Then lay on the place
brown paper about five layers thick, and
apply hot fat iron until the moisture is
evaporated. If the bruise is not gone re-
peat the process. If the bruise is small
merely soak it with warm water and
apply red hot poker very near the sur
lace. Keep the wood wet, and in q few
minutes the bruise win disappear. Chi
eago Times.
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WEDNESDAY
May 18th
AUSTRALASIA STATISTICS.

We acknowledge, with thanks, the
receipt of the "Victorian Yearbook,
1856 from the accomplished author,
Mr. H. Fl. Hayter, G. M. g., Govern
ment Statist of Victoria. The volume is
a bulky one, but every page is replete
with information of the most valuable
character. Mr. Hayter, it should be
added, is a member of half score of
learned societies, and is recognized as the
leading authority on social and economic
statistics in Australasia.
In short review of such a work it is
only possible to glance at few of it's
more striking features. 1t is conclusively
established that Victoria, although by
far the smallest of the Continental colo
MES, is now the most prosperous. The
population of Australasia, at present, is
over four millions, and its growth is
steady and satisfactory. The special
feature of Australasian colonization is,
that it is conducted upon well-defined
lines. No antipathetic race has been in
troduced to disturb the social equilib-
rum. The Anglo-Saxon predominates,
but all European people are welcome to
become landowners and participate in
the affairs Of Government upon naturali-
cation and accepting the institutions of
the country which, like those of the
United States and the parent State,
are derived from common stock. The
result has been the foundation of strong,
opulent, progressive and self-respecting
Christian Commonwealth, which are de-
veloping a higher type of the imperial
race than is to be found even in the old
home, whence issued the industrial con
querors of the world.
The accumulation of wealth in Aus
tralasia is enormous. The public debt
in the aggregate is very great, but with
the single exception of the war expendi-
ture of New Zealand, which is part of it's
funded debt, 1T is represented by avail
ME assets which would sell in the open
market to-day for more than the prime
cost. Railroads and telegraphs, public
buildings, wharves and docks, roads and
DrHNASSO1 RASbeOA
works generally attest the intelligent
foresight of those who pledged the public
credit, and directed the loan expendi-
lures in the various colonies of the South
Pacific. This is the secret of the prompt
response which British capitalists make
to call for funds from those communi-
ties. Their credit is firmly established,
because the lender knows that the
money viii be honestly spent on the
objects set forth in the loan prospectus,
and will not be dissipated in unneces-
sary commissions or muddled away bv
administrative incapacity or worse.
The statistics given at large are for the
fiscal year 1856, and are therefore ONLY
valuable for purposes of comparison.
This was a year of industrial and trade
depression in all the Colonies, and com
pared unfayorably with any of the thir-
teen previous years except 1879 and
1880. The past fiscal year was more
prosperous, however, than the one Illus
trated specially in this volume. Taking
a mean of eleven years, we find the fol-
lowing as the aggregate trade of Aus
tralasia Imports and exports combined)
per head of population:
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The Next Mail.

The Oceanic Company's brigantine
John d. Spreckels leaves for San Fran
cisco on Thursday, the 18th, and will
carry mail from the Post Office. This
will be a good opportunity to forward
correspondence. as the next steamer for
the Coast does not leave until June Sd.
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The Honolulu Almanac and Directory
for 1887 is now for sale at j. II. Soper's
and A. M. Hewett's news depots and at
this Office. Price so cents. 1t contains
complete statistical and general infor-
nation relating to these Islands.
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The matters to come before the Su-
preme Court to-day are: Estate of w.
Hillebrsnd proof of claims and election
of assignee in the bankruptcy of John
NJ. Kapena, and petition of w. r. Castle
for writ OF habeas corpus on behalf of
Akong, alias Lon YOU
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If we lose a dollar on der shtreet we
vhas madt because der finder vhas not
honest enough to return it. If we find
fife dollar we feel dot der owner ought to
lose it for his carelessness.-Car Dunder.
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